IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

India can adopt a new path to development, one that no developing country has taken before, wherein its firms come up with world-beating ideas and products and deliver them globally. No large ...

Six months before she died, in October 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published a memorable essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Coming Democratic Revival.” Amid rising pessimism ...

Political science scholars examined worldwide democratic backsliding and emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions during a Wednesday event titled “Global Challenges & Responses to ...

Urgent steps are needed to rebuild the relationship between citizens and state and stem the decline of democracy, a new IDS report warns.

Botswana Minister of Minerals and Energy Bogolo Kenewendo spoke at the World Leaders Forum in Low Library on Monday, delivering an address on the nation’s democratic history and natural resource ...

Modalities for the implementation of local government autonomy are being sorted out by the federal government, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, said yesterday in Lagos.

In a political landscape where young people are often mobilized for elections but sidelined in decision-making, a new initiative is seeking to fundamentally redefine their role. The Netherlands ...

China’s President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are “red lines” for China and not to be challenged, the ...

India's Transgender Act faces criticism for undermining individual rights and autonomy. This law's restrictions on ...